February 2009 Entries

Marc Andreessen on Charlie Rose

Excellent interview with Marc Andreessen (Founder: Netscape, Loudcloud, Ning, Investor: Plazes, Netvibes, Twitter, Board: Facebook, eBay) being interviewed on Charlie Rose. I love what he has to say about the lowering of production and infrastructure costs for web applications bringing a new wave of innovation. With colaab we’ve seen this first-hand. The tools available have enabled us to build an advanced RIA for collaboration, with a small passionate team. We’re running on Amazon Web Services which means that we only pay for usage and we can scale our infrastructure up and down dependant on demand. storm ideas was founded specifically to...

New release of colaab has gone live!

Over the last couple of months we’ve been working hard on improving, adding to and polishing colaab and are happy to announce that we have a new release available as of now. This release combines both a host of small improvements and bug fixes with some major new functionality. Here’s the lowdown on what’s in this release. Comment statuses and the actions tab One request that consistently came up from our users was the ability to work with comments in a more efficient manner. While they were finding the comments themselves great, they found that when working with lots of comments over...

About storm ideas

storm ideas ltd, based in Edinburgh, Scotland, was formed in April 2008 with the purpose of building web applications that allow communities, networks and businesses to connect and collaborate.

In this vein, we are passionate about the viral framework of social media and the opportunities networking sites represent to connect web-users from across a socio-geographic spectrum.

Equally, we are inspired by Microsoft Silverlight as an enabler for creating richer applications within the browser and, with this in mind, we look to create systems that provide new ways of understanding and interacting with information.

Get in touch hello@stormideas.com
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News

Storm Ideas has completed official branded Twibbon destinations for hit reality television shows, The X Factor and I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. Following these successes, Storm Ideas has been commissioned to invigorate the social media drive for ITV’s Dancing On Ice.

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